- Still not napping very often, but still doing great with going to his room for an hour and resting.
- We've had a few weeks of waking up really early (6:15/6:30), but I think we're getting back on track.
- We still change his diaper around 11pm and sometimes he'll still wake up wet the next morning! Blah...
- He still has a paci to sleep, but does well without it the rest of the day. We really want to take it away when he's two and a half...we'll see!
Eating:
- Sawyer is a wonderful eater and most days eats as much as I do at meal time.
- Favorite foods: broccoli, olives, cheese, yogurt, spaghetti, okra, pasta (LOVES penne noodles with a little butter and parmesan cheese), grapes, blueberries, avocado, cheese toast, french fries
- Dislikes: salmon
- If I ask him what he wants for lunch he always says chicken nuggets, french fries, and chocolate milk! He only gets that when we go to Chick-fil-a, which is probably once or twice a month!
Talking:
- I finally feel like we have conversations. I can understand most of what he's telling me. He still babbles some, but I think he's figuring out how things sound and how to put sounds together.
- He is definitely a talker...we don't have many quiet moments around our house!
Social Skills:
- I've been talking with him A LOT about how he needs to look at people when they talk to him and he needs to talk to them when they ask him something. Half the time he'll talk, the other half he's hiding or closing his eyes....
- We still have some separation anxiety, though it mostly consists of crying for a minute or two and then he's good to go. I am a little worried that it's going to get worse for a little while because he's moving up to the 2 and 3 year old Sunday School class and he's not very familiar with the teachers. We also start Toddler choir tomorrow night and I will be teaching a different choir than the one he's in.
- He definitely has children that he prefers to play with over others. His favorite friends are probably Aidan and Matthew.
Playing/Learning:
- He's awesome at shapes, colors, and numbers to 10.
- He's becoming more interested in the alphabet, probably due to the book "Chicka Chicka Boom Boom" and an alphabet puzzle.
- He is beginning to sort like items. Today we sorted three different kinds of balls...tennis balls, wiffle balls, and glitter balls. He put them all in piles and if I held up a baseball or basketball he would say "same? Nooooo."
- Sawyer is obsessed with building...any kind of block or container will do!
- He loves interactive tv shows...Dora and Bubble Guppies are his favorite. He's like Lance and memorizes anything that comes on tv!
- Sawyer's fine motor/pre-writing skills are developing well. He will sit and color or draw for extended periods of time. He is also getting better with scissors. He loves play dough and paint!
- Next week I'll be starting some structured preschool activities with him and I'm really excited! I miss the classroom!
Discipline:
- For the most part, Sawyer is pretty obedient and well behaved. We try to be very consistent with discipline and consequences for disobeying.
- Our biggest issue right now is throwing fits when he doesn't get his way.
Spiritual Growth:
- Sawyer is moving up to the 2 and 3 year old Sunday School class and will be doing more structured learning instead of mostly playing. I am SO thankful for the teachers he's had for the past year and a half...I'm NOT ready for him to leave them!
- Sawyer says the sweetest prayers. We are trying to teach him that prayer is just talking to God so we don't do the "God is great, God is good" stuff with him. We want him to know that prayer is personal and not just something you memorize and say every day.
- We've been having our Bible time together in the afternoon. He likes to look for pictures of babies, and that's fine with me right now. I just want him to get in the habit of spending time in the Word each day.
- We start back to Toddler Choir this week, so he'll be getting even more scripture through song and dance. LOVE!
Potty Training:
- We haven't been doing anything at all as the doctor told me not to push him. But, tonight, Lance told him to sit on the potty before they took a shower (he said he ALWAYS pees as soon as he gets in the shower!) and he peed in the potty. I gave him 2 m&m's. Sawyer didn't seem excited or anything....just peed, got his candy, and went and got in the shower!
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